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Items by Ramona Wadi
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Humanitarian aid in return for forced displacement
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked upon his campaign to destroy the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), one of the aims was to alter the definition of who qualifies for refugee status. The bans on UNRWA have made it near to impossible for the...
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A veneer for genocide
As Israel continues with its genocide in Gaza, criticism is piling up. From within Israel itself, former senior Mossad official Anon Sofrin recently pointed out that “full military takeover of Gaza would likely come at a steep price”. And during a visit to Israel, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul...
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Gaza in the Himalayas: Modi’s fantasy war and the Kashmir proving ground
Over the past week, the world did not witness counterterrorism—it witnessed bloodlust masquerading as statecraft. On April 22, a deadly attack in Pahalgam claimed the lives of 26 Hindu tourists in Indian-occupied Kashmir. No group claimed responsibility, no investigation followed, no evidence was released. But New Delhi, undeterred by...
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The Indo-Pak war: recklessness and diversion in the service of pharaohs
It began, as it so often does, with a blast in Indian-occupied Kashmir. A terrorist attack—brutal, tragic, and all too familiar—left carnage in its wake. Without missing a beat, the Indian government did what it has made into a political reflex: it pointed its righteous finger at Pakistan, evidence...
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The EU’s discrepancies in humanitarian aid rhetoric
Reading through comments regarding the latest purported disagreements over the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, one fact stands out above all others – humanitarian aid is being politicised, and it always has been. It is easy for the European Union to state that aid “must bever be politicised...
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The art of distraction: War drums, dictatorships, and the dance of nuclear madness
What was feared has happened. India has launched military strikes deep inside Pakistan, and Islamabad claims to have retaliated in kind. The spark? A terrorist attack over a week ago in Indian-occupied Kashmir. As has become tradition, New Delhi wasted no time in pointing the finger at Islamabad, offering...
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Colonialism, dissociation and genocide
The international community’s lenience towards Israel’s genocide in Gaza mirrors the complacency and complicity in the early years of Zionism. What we have seen through decades of Zionist colonisation in Palestine is the international community moving away from the stipulated human rights and international law violations to chart a...
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Kashmir and the spectacle of manufactured crises
It was an old script, dusted off and recycled with all the subtlety of a Bollywood B-movie plot: an attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir—tragic, condemnable, and as predictable as New Delhi’s response. Within hours, India’s government, with its reflexes honed more for propaganda than forensics, pointed a convenient...
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The PA’s efforts to keep Palestinians colonised
The Palestinian Authority’s dependence on Israel and the US makes it traitorous to Palestinians. This week, Israeli media reported that the PA’s Intelligence Chief Majed Faraj will be meeting with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials in Washington. Faraj has been part of the PA’s security establishment since...
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The int’l community is slowly cracking down on Israel’s foreign fighters and the butchers of Gaza
Walking through the airport of a popular European capital in April, it was difficult to miss the presence of hundreds of Israelis scattered throughout the terminals. To the untrained eye and at first sight, one would mistake their tanned features and foreign accents for one of the myriad Mediterranean...
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Advisory opinions will not stop genocide
Legal recourse becomes absurd when the need is to stop genocide as a matter of great urgency. In December 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice about Israel’s obligations in Gaza to ensure delivery of humanitarian aid...
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As Trump threatens the Suez Canal again, how can Egypt respond?
Once again, US President Donald Trump is threatening the Suez Canal, one of the world’s main arteries for international trade, and openly attempting to steal Egyptian state revenues in what is, in effect, a cheap form of blackmail, albeit on a large scale. This is a direct violation of...
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Palestinian voices are throttled by the promotion of foreign agendas
Almost all political rhetoric about Israel’s genocide in Gaza completely misses the point. That includes the Palestinian Authority’s purported concern about Palestinians in Gaza, which does not extend to any concern about Israel’s ultimate colonial vision of creating “Greater Israel”. As the PA’s official news agency Wafa reported, the...
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Netanyahu’s speech on Saturday made his strategy clear
In an unusual move, Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli people on Saturday evening, at the end of the Sabbath. This suggested that he was about to talk about a very serious matter. What did he say? He denied any possibility of a prisoner exchange deal and announced that he...
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Breaking down Netanyahu’s ‘no choice’ narrative
According to Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has no choice but to keep fighting in Gaza. There’s another definition of genocide coming from the settler-colonial enterprise in Palestine – genocide as a last resort. Because, according to Israel, which the US finances to the tune of $3.2 billion a...
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The generals of Islamabad and their Zionist daydream
The generals in Islamabad—ever resplendent in starched uniforms and an exaggerated sense of self-importance—are once again casting furtive glances toward Tel Aviv. Their ambition? To inch closer to the sanctum of global approval, to gain access to the corridors of Zionist power and, perhaps, to be recognised as respectable...
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Israel is controlling the humanitarian paradigm
Since the early days of the latest and ongoing phase of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, humanitarian aid has become a major weapon. It was on 9 October 2023 that the then Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a complete siege to be imposed on Gaza. “There will be no...
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To Stand With Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the US
“At the very centre of it, settler-colonialism is a zero-sum game. It’s either the coloniser’s account or that of the indigenous inhabitants.” The preface to Karam Dana’s recent publication, To Stand with Palestine: Translational Resistance and Political Evolution in the US (Columbia University Press, 2025) is bleak in terms...
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Ibtihal Aboussad and the expansion of the boycott
The Israeli army has enlisted the help of American telecommunications companies to commit genocide against civilians in the Gaza Strip, including doctors and their families. However, it appears that some employees from these companies have completely rejected this matter, as was the case in the widely circulated video of...
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Funding the PA is for the benefit of Israel and the EU, not the Palestinians
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas met with the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, in March. The meeting was replete with the usual hyperbole that still clings to the defunct two-state paradigm, the PA’s reform and funding for this purpose. Yesterday, Reuters reported that...
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Is the US willing to favour Turkiye over Israel in Syria?
As US president Donald Trump sat with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House earlier this month, the Israeli leader looked visibly uncomfortable and discontented, exchanging glances with his delegation as Trump expressed his views surrounding the growing rivalry between Israel and Turkiye in Syria. It was...
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What does the Trump administration want from Damascus?
Following US President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to change the status of Syrian diplomats at the UN mission, which involved the US not recognising the new Syrian administration, a question comes to mind: What does the Trump administration want from Damascus? Is it using non-recognition as a bargaining chip...
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Exposing the UN’s hypocrisy of humanitarian aid and ceasefires
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council this week that, “As aid has dried up, the floodgates of horror have re-opened. Gaza is a killing field – and civilians are in an endless death loop.” With not a single mention of the word genocide in his entire...
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The two-state paradigm is killing Palestinians in conjunction with genocide
Two announcements within the span of a few days about a Palestinian state, or the absence of it, should be enough evidence to prove that the international community is playing diplomatic games for its own benefit, nobody else’s. “A Palestinian state will not be established,” said Israeli Economy and...